The attacks in France on cartoonists, journalists, police and Jews, and the massacres committed in the same week by Boko Haram in Baga, Nigeria, are horrible milestones in what seems like a relentless rise of militant religious fundamentalism.
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Large sections of Grahamstown East were without water on Friday 9 January after a storm on Thursday night damaged equipment at the James Kleynhans pump station.
Eskom has announced they will be implementing Stage 1 load-shedding this weekend, starting 9 January.
The first baby born at 12.15am on New Year's Day 2015 at Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown was a baby girl weighing 3.08kg. Holding her is proud mom Salome Sias. Photo: Nomfundo Lukwe
The first 2014 Christmas baby at Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown was a little girl weighing 2.4kg, born to Veronica Kuneli at 1.14pm.
Fire fighters from the Makana Fire Department extinguished a fire at the Grahamstown municipal rubbish dump late on Thursday 25 December.
A man died after being stabbed in Grahamstown in the early hours of 24 December.
On Christmas Day 8-year-old Avuyile Nkovu was going to get the new set of clothes his adoptive mother had bought for him. Instead, three days before Christmas, his aunt and guardian Phumla Nkovu was returning them to the shop.
Staff reporter Emeritus Professor of Physics at Rhodes University Eddie Baart died on Tuesday 23 December.
It will be a bright Christmas, according to Eskom’s latest status update posted Monday 22 December.